Improvement in card and ticket cases



UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

BERCY F. TARBUTT, OF WESTMINSTER, ENGLAND.`

IMPROVEMENT iN CARD AND TICKET CASES.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 211,604, dated January21, 1879; application filed September 10, 1878 patented in England,April 29, 1878.

To all 'whom it 'may concern Be it known that I PERoY FREDERICK TAR-BUTT, of the city of Vestminster, England, in the Kingdom of GreatBritain, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Card-Gases, whichimprovement is fully set forth in the following specification.

The said invention has already received the protection of Letters Patentin Great Britain, which Letters Patent, numbered 4,125, were sealed onthe 29th day of April, 1878.

The objectof the invention is to facilitate the separate extraction ofone or some determinate number of cards from the case, so as to avoidthe trouble, and sometimes difficulty, of separately selecting and taking the same from a number of cards within the case by hand. asheretofore. The said desired result is accomplished by the employment ofa frictional spring or arm, (illustrated in the accompanying drawings,forming part of this specification,) which spring and its action willnow be fully described.

In the said drawings, Figure lis a side view of the card-case closed,showing the frictional spring in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a similar view,showing the case opened and a card partially raised by change ofposition of the spring. Figs. 3 and 4 are vertical transverse sectionsthrough the preceding figures, showing the relative positions of thespring and cards in end elevation. Fig. 5 is a vertical transversesection through a card-case fitted with two springs and a partition,forming two card-compartments. By this arrangement two cards are raised,one by each spring, in the act of opening the cardease.

In the said gures the body proper of the card-case 1 is provided with ahinged top or cover, 2, to which cover is pinned, riveted, or otherwisesuitably secured one end of the spring, arm, or lever 3, of spring metalor other spring material. To the other end of said arm is secured, inany suitable manner, a pad, 4, of india-rubber or other material ofsuflicient frictional character and surface. The said arm may becomposed entirely of india-rubber, or

may have a sleeve or tube of india-rubber stretched over it, in order torender it capable of exercising considerable friction on the card withwhich it comes in contact.

The operation of this device is obvious. When the cover of the card-caseis opened the arm 3, secured thereto, rises at the same time, and, owingto the pressure thereof and the fric tion of its body or pad 4 upon oneof the cards, 5, within the case, the said arm raises the card withwhich it is in immediate contact above the other cards, or, if it be the,last card in the case, above the side of the case, and holds it in theposition indicated in Figs. 2 and 4, whence it may be readily seized bythe fin gers and withdrawn from the case.

It is desirable, of course, that the arm 3 should be so proportioned andadjusted that its free end shall not spring out of the body of the casewhen the cover 2 is fully opened.

The operation ofthe duplicate parts for lifting two cards shown in Fig.5 is so obvious as to need no further description than that hereinbeforegiven of the ligure itself.

It is obvious that the spring 3 may be otherwise arranged for theaccomplishment of the same purpose without departing from the principleunderlying its use herein. I do not, therefore, confine myself to theprecise arrangement herein shown and described.

Having thus fully described this im provement in card-cases as of myinvention, I claim- 4 A card-case having one or more frictional arms orsprings secured thereto, substantially in the manner described, wherebyone or more cards are automatically raised, by the frictional contactalone of said arm or arms, partially out of the case simultaneously withthe act of opening the same, as and for the purpose set forth.-

PERGY FREDERICK TARBUTT.

Witnesses (Juas. HAYES,

4 Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, Clerk. HENRY RrcHARns,

4 Broad Sanctuary, Accountant.

